We should have all our communications with men, as in the presence of God; and with God, as in the presence of men.

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.

Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.

It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.